
The 19th June 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy headquarters received reports from the Philippine Sea. The first mobile fleet had engaged American carrier forces. The…

October 5th, 1943. 20,000 feet above the endless blue of the central Pacific, the morning sun flashes off aluminum wings as two formations close on…

By late 1943, Japanese pilots already knew the war in the air was changing. The rules they had mastered, climb, turn, strike, disengage, no longer…

August 1st, 1943. Over Pesti, Romania, the sky turns black with iron. A lone B17 flying fortress staggers through walls of flack, engines screaming, wings…

August 1943. Over the Solomon Islands, eight Japanese zero circle-like sharks. Below them, a lone B25 Mitchell bomber trails smoke from its port engine.…

Seven Japanese fighters circle above. A lone Corsair ski the water so low the propeller throws salt spray across the canopy. The pilot does something…

Eight Japanese zero circle like sharks above the Solomon Sea. A lone Corsair limps through the sky at 6,000 ft. Smoke trailing from a punctured…

9 zeros closing from above. Ellis Chandler checks his altitude, 8,000 ft, and knows he is already dead. The F4U Corsair beneath him is fast…

12 Messersmidt 109’s diving from 25,000 ft. A scattered formation of six Spitfires caught low and slow over the channel. No altitude, no speed, no…

Seven German fighters circle above. A lone Tempest limps through the sky, engines screaming, wings shuddering from cannon fire. The pilot expects the kill shot…




